john kratz



(No Model.)

J. KRATZ. TRANSPERRING CABLE CARS AT INTERSEGTING POINTS.

- Patented May 22,1894.

UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

.JOHN KRATZ, OF BALTIMORE, MARYLAND, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH H.PFISTER, OF SAME PLACE.

TRANSFERRING CABLE=CARS A T INTERSECTING POINTS. A

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 520,364, dated May 22,1894.

Application filed April 6,1893. Renewed November 18, 1893. Serial No.491,356. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN KRATZ, a citizen of the United States, residingat Baltimore, in the State of Maryland, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements in Transferring Cable-Cars at Intersecting Points,of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in cable railways and has for itsobject to provide means for transferring a cable car from onetrack toanother running in a direction transversely to the first track.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1, is a plan view of two lines ofcables at their interseotion and showing my improved devices inconnection therewith. Fig. 2 is an enlarged view on line 22 of Fig. 1,looking in a direction from left to right and showing a section of thecable conduit, the cables, and the improved means for shifting the maincable to such a position that the car-grip can take hold of it. Fig. 3,is a view of one end of the cable-loop shown in Fig. 1.

Referring to the drawings, the letter, A, in dicates the cable conduit,of any preferred construction; B, the main cable; B, the upper sectionof the loop-cable; B the lower section of the loop-cable; D, the cantedpulley at one end of the loop; E, the upright pulley at the other end ofthe loop; F, the transverse cable; G, levers for shifting the main andtransverse cables which at either end of the loop are deflected fromtheir position central between the tracks. From the canted pulley themain cable diverges and passes in a curve around pulleys, H, and overthe upright pulley, E,down, and back again on pulleys, H, thus forming aloop, and then up over the canted pulley, D, from which. it resumes themain direction. The pulleys, I, are designed to bring the two sectionsof the main cable closer together so that the gutter, d, in which thelower section, B runs, will not have to be so deep as would otherwise benecessary.

The car-grip, M, may be of any preferred construction but in the presentinstance it is shown as of the ordinary type.

again, whereupon the car can proceed along the main line. If however itis desired to transfer the car to the transverse track, its hold of thecable is retained and it passes around the loop until near the uprightpulley, E, when the grip will let go, and the transverse cable will becaught up by means of the lever, G, at this end of the loop similar inoperation and in construction to that at the other end of the loop. Thecar will then continue up the transverse cable, F.

The shift lever, G, is pivoted at its lower end, g, to the bottom of theconduit, A. The bar, K, bearing pulley, J, is pivoted at one end to thelever, G, and at the other end it is pivoted to one end of the link, L,which in turn is pivoted to the bottom of the conduit. It can readily beseen that by operating lever, G, the cable, B, can be thrown from itsnormal position shown in Fig.2, of the drawings, to the position shownin dotted lines in said figure, where it may be grasped by the car-grip.

4 Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent 1. In a cable transfer system, the combinationof the main cable having a laterally extending loop; a transverse cable;a canted pulley at one end of the loop and an upright pulley at theother end of the loop; a device at one end of the loop for shifting themain cable, and a similar device at the other end of the loop, forshifting the transverse cable, as described.

2. In a cable transfer system, the combination of the main cable havinga laterally extending loop; a transverse cable; a canted pulley in themain line cable and bearing one end of the loop; an upright pulleybearing the other end of the loop; a, shift device at each end of theloop and each comprising a lever, G, pivoted to the bottom of theconduit; a link, L, also pivoted to the bottom of the conduit; and abar, K, pivoted at its ends to the lever and link respectively, andbearing a pulley J, as and for the purpose described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in the presence of twowitnesses.

JOHN KRATZ.

Witnesses:

A. O. BABENDREIER, CHARLES E. MANN, Jr.

